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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
I was so excited about reading “Radium Girls”. This is a really big part of history that seems to be disappearing. All because people do not talk about it anymore. This book is helping to change that.
Inside you will find real photos of the women who lost their lives, because of their jobs, painting clocks for our fighting men. Moore used her writing talent to give us a really great history lesson. Without making it feel like we were reading a textbook. I really felt that I learned more about the women who suffered. And what their lives were like.
Moore didn’t just focus on what happened during the time the women were working, or became sick. She talked about their families, everyday life, their wants and needs. The way she wrote about the women at times, had me tearing up. You felt like these were your neighbors, like they could have been the girls sitting next to you at school.
Life was already hard for everyone in the world at this point in time. Moore took the next step to show us how these women also had fun. It wasn’t all suffering, before they started working at the factory.
That was another thing. Factory work life. Knowing how some factories worked, and some of the conditions their workers had to work in. I was shocked that they didn’t take better precautions after finding out the girls were getting sick. Yes some got to see a doctor at their jobs. But how fair are you going to be treated when the doctor you are seeing is hired by the factories to claim they were not getting sick from working there?
I was so angry when they tried to say that the girls had STDs, instead of admitting that it could have been the radium. This was actually brought up in the hearings, and trials. So much fact and truth was shown in the hearings. It was heartbreaking to see how much those women had to go through. Just to try and be comfortable in their last days. Or to help their families after they passed.
I am thankful that Moore went to the end of the story. She didn’t stop where it was good. She made the story start from the very beginning, and went till the story was done.
This is the first book that you should grab if you want to know more about the “Radium Girls”, and their struggle for justice. Just be ready for the truth to come out, and shock to set in.
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Inside you will find real photos of the women who lost their lives, because of their jobs, painting clocks for our fighting men. Moore used her writing talent to give us a really great history lesson. Without making it feel like we were reading a textbook. I really felt that I learned more about the women who suffered. And what their lives were like.
Moore didn’t just focus on what happened during the time the women were working, or became sick. She talked about their families, everyday life, their wants and needs. The way she wrote about the women at times, had me tearing up. You felt like these were your neighbors, like they could have been the girls sitting next to you at school.
Life was already hard for everyone in the world at this point in time. Moore took the next step to show us how these women also had fun. It wasn’t all suffering, before they started working at the factory.
That was another thing. Factory work life. Knowing how some factories worked, and some of the conditions their workers had to work in. I was shocked that they didn’t take better precautions after finding out the girls were getting sick. Yes some got to see a doctor at their jobs. But how fair are you going to be treated when the doctor you are seeing is hired by the factories to claim they were not getting sick from working there?
I was so angry when they tried to say that the girls had STDs, instead of admitting that it could have been the radium. This was actually brought up in the hearings, and trials. So much fact and truth was shown in the hearings. It was heartbreaking to see how much those women had to go through. Just to try and be comfortable in their last days. Or to help their families after they passed.
I am thankful that Moore went to the end of the story. She didn’t stop where it was good. She made the story start from the very beginning, and went till the story was done.
This is the first book that you should grab if you want to know more about the “Radium Girls”, and their struggle for justice. Just be ready for the truth to come out, and shock to set in.
#HaveYouReadReviews